Often, here at the Blog of Mass Destruction, I have written about the Village. The Village consists of those "experts"...usually from media, but not always, who represent the "inside the D.C. Beltway" club. The Villagers are neither to the left nor the right....they are the Goldilocks, "just right" centrists you often hear chattering about how the nation is center-right, whatever the hell that means.....and how that the extremists on the right and the left simply do not "know" Washington......how it works, and how only ideas and propositions from this elusive center, a center that only they represent, are the only ideas and scenarios that have a chance of working.

Last year, MSNBC's Chris Matthews put on a Village clinic one evening when he had Alan Grayson (D-FLA) on his program. It was before health care reform finally passed Congress and Grayson was saying that it was going to get done, it was going to pass. Matthews, a Village Elder, ridiculed Grayson when Grayson said it would get done through the reconciliation program. Matthews literally mocked Grayson. Laughed at him. Grayson remained calm and explained to the mocker that, indeed, that's how health care would finally pass.

As quickly as Rick Sanchez can say the word, Jew......radical extremist conservative leaders almost hurt themselves trying to out whine the other in calling for the defunding of NPR over the terrible, awful, hideous decision by NPR to fire Juan Williams.

Over the last two years, radically conservative Republicans have attempted one whale of a David Copperfield on us. These extremists from the right have donned revolutionary-age costumes, taped teabags to their hats and held ignorant and inflammatory signs in front of them in the hope that other Americans wouldn't be able to recognize them for who they were.......the same old extreme Republican right. The Republican right of Barry Goldwater's shameful segregationist philosophy, the Republican right of Dick Nixon and Ronald Reagan, and Karl Rove's "southern strategy" of bigotry.

Remember the totally choregraphed emergency about ter'rist Muslims defiling Ground Zero by exercising their first amendment rights to build a community center a few blocks away from where the Towers fell?

It was a proud and pivotal moment for the American Idiot group known as the Tea Party. Sister Sarah, HeadMistress of the Church of Perpetual Bitchy Whininess, told "peaceful" American Muslims to go out there and "refutiate" those New York would-be ter'rists....so's that the hearts of all her Twitter penpal "real Americans" wouldn't hurt so much.

Just last week, a majority in Congress attempted to help out their bankster constituencies, the same constituencies that pay for Congressional campaigns, by passing a new notarization bill which would allow....

To begin a discussion on personal responsibility, which, lately, has been a very popular topic for today's conservatives and Republicans,....I think it's important to look at the national picture, first.

I am very familiar with the arguments from conservatives over individual responsibility...and, for the most part, I don't disagree with many of those arguments.

Conservative opponents of President Obama tell us that what America needs is "smaller government." Smaller government is one of the primary concerns of the often-incoherent group known as the Tea Parties. Tea Partiers are mad as hell and they simply ain't gonna' take anymore of what Father Ronald called "big gub'mint."

Several times I've blogged about the "common good" and how today's radical conservatives are rejecting any concept of the collective, rejecting the notion that, outside of killing foreigners in foreign lands, there's anything "United" about the United States.

White, middle class, Republican voters donning teabags are ever-so-desirous of "taking their country back". If and when they succeed, here is what it will look like.....

I've been thinking for quite awhile now about what happens after the midterm election. I think that looking ahead and analyzing the several possible outcomes can help focus the mind BEFORE entering the voting booth November 2nd.

Much of what's wrong in the political arena of America today is caused by Fox News-That-Isn't.

During the unbelievable and despicable lynching of the community group, ACORN....it was Fox who put pressure on their competitors in the media to run the Jimmy O'Keefe-fabricated, fraudulently edited video sting tapes that Fox had been yammering about non-stop for days. CBS, ABC, NBC and others soon caved, not wanting to be late to the ratings-boosting, pile-on party. Within days, Congress was passing a bill to defund ACORN.

On June 1st and June 4th of this year, I blogged about the illegal act of aggression perpetrated by Israeli commandos against the peaceful relief-aid "flotilla" bound for Gaza.

During the time of those events, U.S. media, predictably, and obediently, propagandized the American public, defending the Israeli crime, by continually running an edited video showing Israeli military descending from helicopters and being beaten by unarmed flotilla passengers.